Me opening /dev/urandom as a raw video stream to watch some nice relaxing RGB static.
Weird. Anytime I do that I get Rick rolled.
I once thought of a movie while coughing into a microphone. I opened the recorded cough with VLC and it played the movie.
You don’t even need to cough with the right setting on. That’s just a safety feature for the uninitiated, so that they don’t submit freaked out bug reports.
My only regret is that I have but one vote to give this amazing post. Bless you, friend, a real treat.
I just discovered something that VLC REALLY didn’t like to play. A 4K50fps JPEG2000 YUV444 12bit lossless ~48 GB video that was only 1 minute long.
To be fair the bitrate of the video is insane at ~5700 Mbit/s. The bitrate is so insane that you should really consider using an NVME drive for playback.
MPC-HC could kinda play it but only with extreme stutter and lag. My CPU (Ryzen 9 5900x) was completely maxed out.
I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.
Vlc has hardware acceleration afaik. I think its more a case of the ffmpeg codec not supporting it yet because what the actual fuck haha
Yeah, I think it’s a good idea to try ffplay if VLC (or mpv) fail.
I get similar results with ffplay compared to MPC-HC. I unfortunately haven’t been able to get proper hardware acceleration to work anywhere.
Or maybe it does work and it’s still bottlenecked by the CPU somehow.
Haha, that’s fair 😂
I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.
ok but why would anyone have a video like that
You can read more about why and how it was made here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/
It’s basically intended to test encoding and stuff like that.
Maybe some kind of super slow motion high resolution type thing?
but if you’re gonna watch it in slow motion anyways then why isn’t it saved as a slow video that is much longer?
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JPEG2000 = not lossless
JPEG2000 supports both. That’s why I specifically said that the video is lossless
Right! Sorry, I assumed this was regular JPEG
Where can I try this
Here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/
I downloaded “natural complexity” or something like that. Unfortunately FTP downloads are limited to 100 Mbit/s so downloads can take a while. Imo they should make a torrent.
Certain programs can do multithreaded downloads on ftp servers. Winscp is one that can do it. Idk about other software
VLC is not script-frendly. mpv is the goat. You can even watch videos from YouTube and maybe from somewhere else.
I was team VLC for certain things it could do, and then I found that MPV could do all those things and more. Crazy how versatile it is.
vlc can even play incomplete video files - it’ll just play the parts of it, that will play.
It’ll even play videos that are actively downloading
^ Found a fellow old school torrent user 😆
Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.
Is there an updated fork with security patches? Android disclosed so many media vulnerabilities in the last 5 years that I don’t trust unupdated media players anymore
I’ve never stopped getting updates.I’ve been using K-Lite Codec Pack since Kazaa lite was relevant. It has always come with updated MPC-HC. Looks like the GitHub is here:
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
MPC-HC with madVR and a beefy GPU for the upscaling algorithms is godlike.
That’s a fork and it looks nice, thanks for sharing
Same, I’d take it any day over VLC because of native dark mode. VLC’s themes are janky and weird-looking.
Also MPC-BE because of nice support with dolby digital stuff lol
The cool part is vlc can act like a video downloader, screen recorder, and media converter. It can also stream a video over the internet
The swissknife of digital video.
The every thing tool for media, now we just need a video editor XD
You are looking for kdenlive
VLC: it can do anything media related. I wish iTunes can do this without being so bloated.
VLC is nice, but same as SMplayer or Mplayer, it can`t download a video, but record it in streaming. I used VLC before, but VLC lacks in speed, it’s very slow compared to the mencioned.
The trick is you get the stream url from vlc, then load it up in a browser to download it fully.
And the dude who maintains VLC do not even make money from it, at all!
I find VLC really struggles with UHD high frame-rate video.
Is it vlc struggling or your entire PC?
I has one boss who wanted to stream 2 4K60 cctv feeds to his laptop while in the office. Needless to say his laptop struggles with a single 4K I didn’t even bother setting up the second feed.
Run a transcoder in “the cloud” (another PC in the room) and then it’s possible
Another fun use for ffmpeg!
Other video players work fine. My PC is fairly new.
what are you watching that’s uhd and high ftamerate? is is something you made? I’ve never heard of anything releasing like that because yeah, most people can’t play that lol.
Yeah, videos from my phone. Most things aren’t an issue.
I don’t even know what icon is on the right
I think it’s Windows Media player
Relabelled as Movies
MPC: All my homies hate wmp.
Removed by mod
Mpv is better
It runs better, but VLC is much more user friendly
shrugs idk. Vlc has more features. Not sure I’d call it easier.
Tell your parents to set mpv to loop a video and see how it goes
Such beings do not deserve to use computers. We’re talking about humans here, not our monkey ancestors.
I was missing Codecs in my Linux install. VLC couldn’t play a single file
Reinstall it.
Try the flatpak, it should come with all the codecs
I’ve moved on. VLC used to be great, but my go to now is definitely MPC-BE.
This is news to me. What happened with VLC?
I don’t know what they mean, but to me it didn’t become less great, just MPV (based players) are often better. They are more customizable (even scriptable) and better with the resource usage.
Hummm, Don’t get me wrong I like the command line when I work on my GUI-less server, but a video player to run through the command line on a daily drive desktop with GUI and everything?
This seems a bit overkill and useless no? I mean when I’m on my desktop I just want to click on my media file and launch it right away.
Maybe I’m not the target audience and it’s focus is more entitled to people working in the video industry and needs more granular tweaking with specific media files? Scripts?
Or Am I missing something here?
but a video player to run through the command line on a daily drive desktop with GUI and everything?
I’m not running it from the command line, I open videos with it from my file manager, or through the Jellyfin plugin.
I mean when I’m on my desktop I just want to click on my media file and launch it right away.
Yes, that’s what I do. Of course, your desktop environment has to know that you have this MPV and it can open such and such files, but it can work like that.
I actually found a file format that VLC won’t play, .MJP, yanked off of our network’s security camera system. It requires the security company’s proprietary video player.
what do you see from running binwalk on one of these files?
I don’t know what that is - I’ll have to look into it on Monday.
Very high level: it’s a program to quickly find files within files and it runs on pretty much any OS that exists
